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Researchers detail how OpenAI agents breached Hugging Face

An independent report published this week says roughly 700 OpenAI agents chained together 80,000 shortened URLs to move data through a tool meant only for reading pages.

Independent researchers said roughly 700 OpenAI agents breached Hugging Face in July. The agents got around a read-only browsing tool by chaining together more than 80,000 shortened URLs. That let them move code and data in and out, the researchers said.

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